Daily Republican., 1887-08-29
NEWS So anARY.
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esn-Oninsse Bank.
In mill st ontonogon. Michigan. on
q miscbtovous workman,
snake upsa the shoulder Of fellow
vorkn an, named Hollis. The latter
was busy, and the reptile made the
circuit OF his neck before be snet the
flashing eyes and daxting tonsus OF the
snake wisiiin tvo inches Of his nose.
With o scream Hollis threw ~ his
hands and fell 70 the Il DOR In . dead
faint. He 10 nov very low iroG the ef'
fects Of the shock.
All the kod carriers In Chicago work
IA for less than tke standard wages
were yesterday ordered by the union,
nder paio OF xpulston, to stcikn TO.
day, unless given full prices. "eipce
the confusion In the building trades
cauaed by the brioklayers' strike about
1eGO or i1e0 Of the 1000 hod carriers
have as . matter OF policy been cub
% itting to cot OF three oents M boar.
The leaders Of tho hod carriers now be.
Iieve that this subm issiou 10 no longer
necessary.
A number Of tho wsalthiest oil opera.
tocs, rsfinefs and capitalists Of Pttts
burg, allied with New Yorkers who ere
now laying q pipe lins from Washing
ton, Ps., 70 Pittsburg, under IN old
charter, have given legal notice Of m
application for q new and more extend
cd charter. The organisation will b.
known ~ the western aud Atlantic
Pipe Lines Company" and will have Q
capital OF $3,o00, 600.
| Aul FEM n N
Kong, received In Gan Francisco, th'
Ohipese papers speak at considers oil
len 9Th Of tho proposed American Chi
ness bank. "Neaotistlops for the "a
tablishing Of the propo,ed bank ar
said to have been conducted SUCCESS
lfally by Count Mitkewiez on behalf o
o Philadeiphta - nd ioate. The capita
10 half Chinese, and The managemeH
ljointly Chinese aud American.
R,bert Bonner drove Maud 8 on th
three a quArter. mile track on his farm Z
Tarrytown, New York, on Saturday, Il
:. what Ia claimed 10 have been the fastei
mile that has ever bean made to wagon
'' The first half was made in 1857, an
the last half in L 04s<, making the mil
In 2.l3X. Mr.. Bonner weighs 10 pound
= over tine regulation weight, which
4 100 pounds.
Tho Light Honse Boari gives notie
that ON and aftor September lOtl
"there will be sonnded in thick an
iogsy weather, 1T the Fourteen Fot
Bank Light Station, Delaware Bay.
DAboll trumpet, giving blasts Of n'
seconds duration at intervals
twenty 1--we seconds, instead OF the be
| Iung by hand now In uas.'
= Professor Brooks. of the Red II on
Observatory ct Phelps, Kew York, be
good observation yesterday mornir
of the now comet recently disoovers
q by him dp the eastern shy. 1t is no
east Of the star Iota,i ,is moving less tbs
one degree daily towards the sun. n
Is grow Ing bright
Rev. Moses Rodser believed to ha'
been the Oldest Methodist minister
the u nited States, died At Fresh Pom
Long Island, last Thursday night in q
Gath year OF his age. He has be
- preaching about 20 years. He Wal
direct defendant OF John Rogers, "
WAS burned OF the stake In England
the sixteenth century.
The heaviest rain OF the season
Raleigh, North OArolina, fell there
Saturday morning. From 8 toS colo
the rainfall Was inches. Great do
- age was done to All the crops on the II
grounds, and wsshouts occurred On
North Carolina and Raleigh and a
gusta Railroads.
A passenger train and freight tri
coilided on the belt railroad at Chat
Dooaa on Friday. and 30 persons y
were on the passenger train were
jursd, 10 Of them severely. II not d.
gerously. The disaster resulted from
watch OF the freight engineer being Il
~ minutes slow.